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A successful single case treatment of a 6 year old selective mute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Edwina Sheehy
Edwina Sheehy*
Affiliation:
Avalon, N.S.W.
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Abstract

This study concerned a six-year-old migrant girl who had not spoken in school since she enrolled (seven terms), nor prior to that in her pre-school. The treatment consisted of 16 sessions which began with direct immediate rewards alone with the therapist and progressed to indirect rewards and group work in the classroom.

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Field Reports
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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 8 , November 1998 , pp. 65 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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